| The Politics of Survival in Academia: Narratives of Inequity, Resilience, and Success Contributor(s): Jacobs, Lila (Editor), Cintrón, José (Editor), Canton, Cecil E. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0742523691 ISBN-13: 9780742523692 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $49.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2002 Annotation: This volume presents the personal accounts of African American, Asian American, and Latino faculty who describe in their narratives of struggles the challenges they faced in order to become bona fide members of the United States Academy. These narrative |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Higher |
| Dewey: 378.120 |
| LCCN: 2002069690 |
| Series: Immigration and the Transnational Experience |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6" W x 8.94" (0.59 lbs) 200 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume presents the personal accounts of African American, Asian American, and Latino faculty who use 'narratives of struggles' to describe the challenges they faced in order to become bona fide members of the U.S. Academy. These narratives show how survival and success require a sophisticated knowledge of the politics of academia, insider knowledge of the requirements of legitimacy in scholarly efforts, and resourceful approach to facing dilemmas between cultural values, traditional racist practices, and academic resilience. The book also explores the empowerment process of these individuals who have created a new self without rejecting their 'enduring' self, the self strongly connected to their ethno/racial cultures and groups. Within the process of self -redefinition, this new faculty confronted racism, sexism, rejection, the clash of cultural values, and structural indifference to cultural diversity. The faculty recounts how they ultimately learned the skillful accommodation to all of these issues. It is through the analysis of survival and self-definition that women and faculty of color will establish a powerful foothold in the new academy of the twenty-first century. |